The removal of these leaders has prevented
ISIS external attack planning, facilitation and operations targeting Saudi
Arabia, the United States and Sweden, officials said.

Munawwar al-Mutayari, a Syria-based ISIS
member planning external attacks to be carried out in Saudi Arabia, was
killed by a coalition kinetic strike April 24.

A Belgian, Soufiane Makouh, who came to Syria
to plan attacks against the U.S and its interests, was killed by a kinetic
strike June 2.

On June 12, coalition forces conducted a kinetic
strike against Simak, an ISIS intelligence official linked to a terror cell
plotting attacks in Sweden. Two additional individuals directly associated
with the Sweden attack plot, Abu Awf and Abu-Quddamah, were killed on June
24. Additionally, Swedish attack cell member Sharif al-Ragab was killed June
26.

"With
its conventional forces under heavy pressure in Syria, [ISIS] is desperately
seeking to remain relevant through operations that threaten all the nations
of the world," said Army Brig. Gen. Brian Eifler, CJTF-OIR director of
operations. "The coalition and its partners will continue to deny [ISIS]
safe havens in Syria and Iraq in order to disrupt the terrorist group's
capabilities to plan, coordinate and carry out attacks on the nations of the
world."